Dolerite is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.
You can make 274 anagrams from letters in dolerite (deeilort).
1830-40; French dolérite Greek doler(ós) deceitful (derivative of dólos wile) + French -ite -ite1
The minerals of diabase are the same as those of dolerite, viz.
The terms diabase and dolerite are employed really to designate distinct facies of the same set of rocks.
It is traversed in places by dikes and sills of diabase or dolerite, while bosses of more or less altered gabbro rise through it.
Generally speaking, the soils produced from diorite are superior to those from dolerite.
Still later, dolerite sills and sheets and dikes of granophyre and quartz felsite followed in the same region.
dolerite was brought from Arabia, cedar from Syria, gold and precious stones from the east.
These are caused either by old intrusions of diabase and gabbro which have undergone modifications, or by later ones of dolerite.
The boundary between these formations is also marked by the development of masses of dolerite and clayey basalt.
It stood on edge, and several dikes of basalt, with dolerite, had cut through it.
The dolerite of Fair Head sends off sheets along the bedding-planes of these carboniferous strata.